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Alexander Selkirk was the son of a shoemaker and tanner in Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland, born in 1676. [3] In his youth, he displayed a quarrelsome and unruly disposition. He was summoned before the Kirk Session in August 1693 [4] for his "indecent conduct in church", but he "did not appear, being gone to sea".
A Voyage to the South Sea, and Round the World is a 1712 book by Edward Cooke, about a real-life circumnavigation of the Earth in two ships, under the command of Woodes Rogers. It is notable for including a firsthand account of castaway Alexander Selkirk, whose tale appears to have helped inspire Daniel Defoe to write his 1719 novel, Robinson ...
The story has been thought to be based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, [2] a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on a Pacific island called "Más a Tierra" (now part of Chile) which was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966. [3]: 23–24 [4] Pedro Serrano is another real-life castaway whose story might have inspired the novel. [5] [6]
From 1704 to 1709, the island was home to the marooned Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk, who at least partially inspired novelist Daniel Defoe's fictional Robinson Crusoe in his 1719 novel, although the novel is explicitly set in the Caribbean. [4] This was just one of several survival stories from the period of which Defoe would have been ...
The rich detail Ward provides in this 2011 National Book Awards–winning story is largely due to these devastating circumstances, but gives the story an authenticity to accompany its candor.
Robinson Crusoe (1719), a novel by Daniel Defoe based loosely on the real life of Alexander Selkirk, first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English; Lemuel Gulliver, a physician in Gulliver's Travels, a satire by Jonathan Swift.
Cinque Ports was an English ship whose sailing master was Alexander Selkirk, [1] generally accepted as a model for the fictional Robinson Crusoe. [2] The ship was part of a 1703 expedition commanded by William Dampier, who captained the accompanying ship, the 26-gun St George with a complement of 120 men.
Robinson Crusoe in an 1887 illustration. Robinsonade (/ ˌ r ɒ b ɪ n s ə ˈ n eɪ d / ROB-in-sən-AYD) is a literary genre of fiction wherein the protagonist is suddenly separated from civilization, usually by being shipwrecked or marooned on a secluded and uninhabited island, and must improvise the means of their survival from the limited resources at hand.